# goirt
## Irish
### Alternative forms

* guirt (superseded) (both etymologies)

### Pronunciation

* (Munster) IPA: /ɡʌɾˠtʲ/
* IPA: /ɡɔɾˠtʲ/, /ɡiɾˠtʲ/

### Etymology 1

From Old Irish goirt (“bitter, sour, salt, sharp, keen”).

#### Adjective

goirt (genitive singular feminine goirte, plural goirte, comparative goirte)
* salty, bitter, brackish
* painful

##### Declension

$^1$ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article. $^2$ When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

##### Derived terms

* goirteog

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

goirt m
* inflection of gort:
** vocative/genitive singular
** nominative/dative plural

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 38, page 21
* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “goirt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

### Further reading

* Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “goirt”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 377
* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “goirt”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “goirt”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
* “goirt”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025

## Old Irish
### Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *gʷereti, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʷorti-, a variant of *gʷʰer- (“warm, hot”), if the meaning developed from "hot." MacBain prefers a derivation from *ǵʰers- (“to bristle”). Both roots have compared to German garstig (“nasty, rude”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ɡor͈ʲtʲ]

### Adjective

goirt
* bitter, sour, salt, sharp, keen
* hungry, starved

#### Derived terms

* gorte

#### Descendants

* Irish: goirt
* Manx: gort
* Scottish Gaelic: goirt

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “gʷero”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 146
* ↑ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “goirt”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN

### Further reading

* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “goirt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

## Scottish Gaelic
### Etymology

From Old Irish goirt (“bitter, sour, salt, sharp, keen”).

### Pronunciation

* (Lewis, Wester Ross) IPA: /ɡ̥ɔːrˠs̪t̪/, [ɡ̥ɔʂʈ]
* (Harris, North Uist, Benbecula, Skye) IPA: /ɡ̥ɔːrˠʃtʲ/, [ɡ̥ɔʂtʲ]
* (South Uist, Barra) IPA: /ɡ̥ɔːrˠʃtʲ/, [ɡ̥ɔɕtʲ]

### Adjective

goirt (comparative goirte)
* sore
* sour, tart, acidulous
* stale

#### Derived terms

* uachdar goirt (“sour cream”)

### References

* 1 2 3 Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1940) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. I: The dialects of the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
* ↑ Roy Wentworth (2003) Gaelic Words and Phrases From Wester Ross / Faclan is Abairtean à Ros an Iar, Inverness: CLÀR, →ISBN